Toll Intermodal Freight Facility, Port of Fremantle

Anthony was appointed to act as Toll Group’s WA Representative in a dual role of Development Manager & Project Manager to manage Toll’s capital investment in the Toll Logistics and Distribution Centre portfolio. The role has overseen and managed the development cycle from concept through design and construction of various distribution facilities. This relationship is ongoing with investment continuing since 2013 through to present. The WA project portfolio to date includes some $100m of works for a range of Toll businesses such as Toll Energy, Toll Express, Toll Mining, Toll IPEC and Toll Priority. The projects have ranged throughout Western Australian from metropolitan Perth to the Pilbara and as far as the Northern Territory, South Australia and Queensland.

Toll Intermodal’s Fremantle port based terminal is a dedicated 4.2ha wharf cartage business with its own transport fleet. The facility comprises a 6,000m2 warehouse with both cross-docking facility and 1.5ha heavy duty container storage hardstand with the ability to store up to 2200 TEU stacked 7 containers high. The facility also consists of:

Internal space for racked and pallet goods storage
Freight cross docking facility
Breezeway/drive-thru
Dangerous goods store
Single storey main office
Truck and trailer parking
Light vehicle car parking
Container wash down facility, Container fumigation and tailgating facility.
Automated weighbridge capable of weighing vehicles up to 36m in one movement.

The facility operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Apart from warehousing and transport, other service offerings include:

Loaded and empty container staging/storage
De-hire of preferred shipping line suppliers
Logistics services
Quarantine fumigation, tailgating wash bay facilities
Warehouse goods storage in proprietary racking
Cross docking of freight and medium term storage of freight received from shipments arriving through the Port
Short term storage/lay down for inbound and outbound freight
Weighbridge facility located on the opposite side of the road from the proposed Toll facility

The project was unique in that the facility was constructed on reclaimed land with poor ground conditions. Extensive ground engineering exceeding what a typical equivalent facility would require. Toll’s early consultation with civil and geotechnical engineers ensured the tender was properly informed and pricing guaranteed mitigating unforeseen costs from arising.

Toll embarked on a collaborative approach with the Port Authority and end users to ensure the design brief and concept designs captured the requirements of all the stakeholders involved. The final delivered solution has resulted in a higly functional facility which provides flexible service offerings to a wide variety of end users and customers.

Toll independently undertook the tendering and procurement process entering directly into a design and construct contract with a builder. The project was completed on programme and under budget in June 2015.